Q1. Theodore Van Kirk, the last surviving member of the crew that dropped the first atomic bomb deployed, died on Tuesday. One hundred and forty thousand people in Hiroshima died from the detonation and ensuing firestorm. Van Kirk said in an interview before his death that 'wars and atomic bombs don't solve anything' but that he'd do it again. If you were in the Air Force in 1945, what would you have done if called upon to be in the crew of the Enola Gay?
overall
custom
male
female
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ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
I'd have followed orders
82%
89%
76%
94%
86%
66%
75%
77%
88%
82%
I'd have resisted orders
7%
4%
10%
3%
4%
15%
16%
6%
5%
7%
Don't know
10%
6%
13%
2%
9%
18%
8%
16%
6%
10%
Q2. If you had been in the crew that dropped an atomic bomb, how do you think you would have felt in the decades after the war?
overall
custom
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Good, same as if I were any other soldier that was responsible for enemy deaths during wartime
28%
29%
28%
44%
32%
7%
4%
28%
36%
28%
Bad, same as if I were any other soldier that was responsible for enemy deaths during wartime
34%
32%
36%
30%
30%
43%
16%
36%
39%
34%
Good, different from other soldiers responsible for enemy deaths
5%
10%
1%
11%
3%
2%
15%
6%
1%
5%
Bad, different from other soldiers responsible for enemy deaths
20%
21%
20%
5%
20%
37%
54%
16%
13%
20%
Don't know
10%
6%
13%
7%
13%
9%
8%
12%
9%
10%
Q3. Earlier in the week the US has accused Russia of violating a 1987 nuclear missile treaty. Which country, if any, do you think honors its nuclear non-proliferation treaties? (Check all that apply)
overall
custom
male
female
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ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
United States
46%
52%
40%
58%
41%
36%
16%
45%
55%
46%
Russia
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Neither
34%
34%
35%
21%
43%
38%
46%
36%
29%
34%
Both
1%
1%
0%
0%
0%
2%
0%
1%
1%
1%
Don't know
18%
12%
24%
20%
13%
23%
36%
16%
14%
18%
Don't care
0%
0%
0%
0%
1%
0%
0%
1%
0%
0%
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